El problema chino

Relacionado con lo que venimos hablando por acá, les dejo esta excelente columna en el WSJ sobre el miedo a China disfrazado de preocupación por la seguridad:

The recent outcry over poisonous pet food and the recall of lead-tainted toys sourced by Mattel in China proves one thing: We have a China problem. It is not, however, a China problem in the way most people think. It is not a problem with safety standards that threaten our children and our pets. It is a problem with the very fact of China as an emerging force on the global economic stage, and it underscores a profound and worrying trend in American political and economic life. For half a century we fought for the creation of a global capitalist system. Now that we have one, we seem to have forgotten one little thing: Capitalism means competition, and we are acting like we can't handle it.

To understand that the uproar over the toys isn't really about product safety, we need to look back at the past few years and see that the current hullabaloo is just the latest incarnation of our simmering China problem.